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National Health Insurance for South Africa White Paper

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The NHI aims to achieve the following objectives, ensuring universal health coverage for all South Africans, improving the quality of health care services irrespective of socio-economic status of the user, promoting equity and social solidarity through the pooling of risks and funds and creating one public health fund with adequate resources and funds to plan for and to effectively meet the health needs of the entire population.

National Consolidated Guidelines for the Management of HIV in Adults, Adolescents, Children and Infants and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

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All HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, children, adolescents and adults have been eligible for ART regardless of CD4 count or WHO staging since 01 September 2016. The “Test and Treat All” approach has made it possible for people living with HIV (PLHIV) to access ART timeously. The 2019 Consolidated Guidelines have been revised to include a new formulation of the fixed dose combination (FDC) of tenofovir (TDF) 300 mg + lamivudine (3TC) 300 mg + dolutegravir (DTG) 50 mg (TLD) for all eligible adults, adolescents and children 10 years and older and weighing 35 kg or more.

HIV & AIDS, STI and TB Management Policy for the Public Service

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Policies
This policy serves as a broad guide for government public service organizations in responding to HIV&AIDS,STI and TB Management. It provides guidelines to the department on how to implement HIV&AIDS,STI and TB Management programmes in the world of work as part of the overall employee health and wellness initiatives. The policy should be read in conjunction with the EH&W Strategic Framework (2008), Step-by-Step Implementation Guide, the M&E framework.

Framework for Managing Programme Performance Information

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Policies
Performance information indicates how well an institution is meeting its aims and objectives, and which policies and processes are working. Performance information is key to effective management, including planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reporting.

District Health Planning & Monitoring Framework

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Policies
These guidelines recognize that District Planning, Budgeting, and Monitoring is a single objective and it therefore strives to streamline the process. The revised District Planning and monitoring system is an effort to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of the process, thereby promoting better service delivery of District Health Services and improve health outcomes in South Africa through a direct focus on planning and monitoring for implementation.

District Health Management Information System (DHMIS) Policy

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The DHMIS policy focuses on seven (7) high level priority areas, namely: Health Information Coordination and Leadership; Indicators; Data management, Data security; Data analysis and information products; Data dissemination and use and Health information system resources. These priority areas have sub-components, under which detailed policy provisions are made. It is of particular significance that this policy includes the ownership and management of the DHMIS.

Clinical Resource Guide

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Policies
This guide was developed by the International Training and Education Center on Health (I-TECH) South Africa to support HIV, AIDS, STI and Tuberculosis care and treatment. It details the algorithms for testing intervals, diagnosis and treatment of HIV and HIV related diseases.
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